My Friend Flicker! (Skydi Version); ...From Goldsmith to Greek myth; Fumbles! Blunders! Bobbles! Science fiction and Superheroes; Toenail, tailbone (but “No Tail!”) Nightingale and Guitarist

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Schpuzzle of the Week:

Going from Goldsmith to Greek myth

Take a three-syllable adjective followed by a two-word-two-syllable brand-name food. 

Replace the adjective with a near-rhyming adjective. 

Scrunch together two adjacent letters in the fourth syllable to create what appears to be one different letter. 

Replace the fifth syllable with a rhyming word.

Remove the space between the fourth and fifth syllables. 

The result, in five syllables, is the adjectival form of a proper name –  a proper name that is the first of two words naming a psychological concept associated with Greek mythology that is “a group of repressed desires and memories that exerts a dominating influence upon the personality.” 

What are these ten syllables?

Hint: The three-syllable adjective and near-rhyming adjective begin, respectively, with an “e” and “O”.

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Skydiversionary Appetizer:

“My Friend Flicker!” (the Skydi Version)

Note: The following puzzle, created by Mark Scott (aka “skydiveboy,” his screen name) is associated with the the “de-light-ful” illustration, below, that accompanies the puzzle text. 

It is an image of a classic 97-year-old lantern (date-stamped “February 1928”)  given to Mark’s mother by a friend of hers who inherited it from her grandfather. The friend knew the Scott family liked to go tent camping several times each summer, and she had no use for it herself. Mark still has it, and it has not required any restoration other than his replacing the cap gasket. He says the older lanterns were the better ones, and that he loves restoring them.

That said, here is Mark’s latest “skydiversion”:

There is a well known American genius inventor whose middle name must have been restraining during his long life... or at least at the end of his long life.

Can you name him?

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Freeloading Hors d’Oeuvre

Fumbles! Blunders! Bobbles!

Place a space within an adjective that is associated with fumbles, blunders and bobbles. 

The result is two nouns: 

1. a lazy freeloader, and 

2. something that freeloader likely does not possess. 

What are this adjective and two nouns?

Naive Newcomer Slice:

Science fiction and Superheroes

Remove the name of a science fiction character from a superhero’s name to get a word for a naive or inexperienced newcomer.

What are these two names? 

What is the word for a naive or inexperienced newcomer?

Riffing Off Shortz And Terrien Entrees:

Toenail, tailbone (but no tail!)

Will Shortz’s February 2nd NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle, created by Lindsay Terrien of Chicago, Illinois, reads:

Name a part of the human body in seven letters. Add a B and rearrange the result to get another part of the human body.

Note: Lancek, who posts regularly on Blaine’s Blog, deserves credit for the parenthetical part of the headline: (but no tail!).

Puzzleria!s Riffing Off Shortz And Terrien Entrees read:

ENTREE #1

Name a puzzle-maker from Chicago, first and last names. 

Rearrange these 14 letters to spell the two-word name of a fictional street dog in Mexico who finds a home in Washington State where
he overcomes challenging situations “while keeping his head up and tail a-waggin’ through life’s predicaments.”

Who is this puzzle-maker?

What is the dog’s name?

Note: Entrees #2 through #7 were created by our good friend Nodd, author of “Nodd ready for prime time” on Puzzleria! 

ENTREE #2

Name a part of the human body in seven letters. 

Add a B and rearrange the result to get a card game. 

What are the body part and the card game?

ENTREE #3

Name a part of the human body in seven letters. 

Replace a D with a B and rearrange the result to get a word for a short work of fiction that has a word count limitation. 

What are the body part and the word for a work of fiction?

ENTREE #4

Name a part of the human body in seven letters. 

Rearrange its letters to get a word for a kind of cheese. 

What are the body part and the cheese?

ENTREE #5

The same five letters can be arranged to spell two different body parts. 

What are the body parts?

ENTREE #6

Name a part of the human body in eight letters. 

Rearrange the letters to spell a two-word phrase that describes a steep slope or cliff.
(The first word of the phrase is an indefinite article.) 

What is the body part, and what is the two-word phrase?

ENTREE #7

Name a part of the human body. 

Rearrange the letters to spell the last name of a popular singer who is not of Asian descent.

What is the body part, and who is the singer?

Note: Entrees #8 through #10 were created by our good friend Plantsmith, author of “Garden of Puzzley Delights” on Puzzleria!  

ENTREE #8

Add a B to a seven-letter body part. 

Subtract the letters of a major broadcast channel. Mix the result to get a second body part.

Hint: The two body parts are not far from one another.

ENTREE #9

The following Plantsmith puzzle is a riff on ViolinTeddy’s Strad-Steiff Subtleties from last week:

Think of two near-homophones relating to the following two items: 

Trump Tower vs French dip. 

What are these two near-homophones?

ENTREE #10

Name something, in two words, seen on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates. 

Rearrange the letters to spell a two-word headline that might have appeared, but fortunately did not appear, in U.S. newspapers in early September 1975 and, if not then, later in September 1975.

ENTREE #11

Name an enclosure in which a creature may be fluttering. 

Five of its letters are the first five in the alphabet. 

Remove one of those five, then reverse the order of the letters to its left. 

The result is an enclosure in which a heart may be fluttering.

What are these two enclosures? 

ENTREE #12

Name a part of the human body in seven letters. 

Reverse the order of the last three letters and move the result to the beginning. The final result is a name that is preceded by Eddie, Lily or Herman. 

What are this body part and name?

ENTREE #13

Rearrange the eight letters in a part of the human body to spell a two-word description of
one of the people pictured in the image accompanying this puzzle text.

What are the body part and the description?

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Anagram Hall Of Fame Dessert

Nightingale and Guitarist

Name two Hall of Fame music artists, a female singer-songwriter and a male guitarist, whose first names are anagrams of  each other. 

Who are they?

Every Thursday at Joseph Young’s Puzzleria! we publish a new menu of fresh word puzzles, number puzzles, logic puzzles, puzzles of all varieties and flavors. We cater to cravers of scrumptious puzzles!

Our master chef, Grecian gourmet puzzle-creator Lego Lambda, blends and bakes up mysterious (and sometimes questionable) toppings and spices (such as alphabet soup,Mobius bacon strips, diced snake eyes, cubed radishes, “hominym” grits, anagraham crackers, rhyme thyme and sage sprinklings.)

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